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Details of some of the biggest temblors (Source):

May 12, 2008: At least 12,000 people die in Sichuan province alone after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits the region. Death toll is feared to rise as 18,000 people are belived buried under rubble in a city near the epicenter. [More info]

February 2003: At least 94 people are killed and more than 200 injured when a quake measuring 6.8 hits sparsely populated Jiashi county in the remote northwestern region of Xinjiang.

January 1998: At least 47 people die and more than 2,000 are injured when an earthquake measuring 6.2 rocks northern Hebei province, devastating mud and brick homes in two rural counties.

April 1997: A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 hits Xinjiang, killing nine people and injuring 60.

January 1997: Earthquake measuring 6.4 kills up to 50 people and injures more than 40 in Xinjiang.

May 1996: Earthquake measuring 6.4 rocks Inner Mongolia, killing 15 people and injuring more than 200. Nearly 400 aftershocks follow.

March 1996: Earthquake measuring 6.9 jolts Xinjiang, killing 26 people, injuring 128.

February 1996: Earthquake measuring 7.0 wrecks scenic mountain town of Lijiang in Yunnan, killing at least 304 people and injuring more than 16,000. [More info]

October 1995: Earthquake in Yunnan kills 50 and injures more than 6,000. The 6.5 tremor leaves 170,000 people homeless.

April 1990: Earthquake measuring 6.9 kills 126 people in northwestern Qinghai province.

October 1989: Series of tremors in northern Shanxi and Hebei provinces kills 29 people and leave 60,000 homeless.

November 1988: Earthquake measuring 7.6 devastates remote areas in Yunnan, killing at least 730 people and destroying about 400,000 homes.

August 1985: Xinjiang is hit by an earthquake that kills 67 people and injures more than 100. The tremor measures 7.4.

July 1976: At least 240,000 people die when an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale flattens the northern city of Tangshan. [More info]


There's also an interesting animation here that shows the epicenters of the 2008 Sichuan quake and aftershocks.